Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
31st May 1786
539.
ROSE
FITZPATRICK
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1284.
was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 29th day of April
last, one black silk cloak, value 2 s. the property of
Joseph
Hammer
proceedingsvictim
, two aprons, value 6 d. one other apron, value 1 s. a lawn apron, value 1 s. one other apron, value 2 d. three child's callico shirts, value 1 s. a bed-gown, value 1 d. a neck handkerchief, value 1 d. and a quarter of a yard of brown silk, value 2 d. a waistcoat, value 1 d. a pocket, value a halfpenny, three shirts, value 1 s. the property of
Thomas Thrill
Wynd
proceedingsvictim
.
MARY
THRILL WYND
< no role >
sworn.
On the 29th of April, I lost the things mentioned in the indictment out of a drawer. (Repeats them.) They were all kept in one drawer, except the cloak, which was on the ground floor.
JOSEPH
HAMMER
< no role >
sworn.
I lost my wife's cloak, it was on the prisoner's back when I took her, which was about sixty yards off the house; I found the things upon her.
(Deposed to.)
LYDIA
SALKELD
< no role >
sworn.
I am servant to Mr. Wiltshire; I saw the prisoner go in and out of the prosecutor's house on Saturday, between three and four; I saw nothing in her apron.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I was buying them of a muffin man, when the prosecutor came and knocked me down.
Prosecutor. She was offering them for sale to the muffin man.
GUILTY
.
To be
privately whipped
, and
imprisoned twelve months in the House of Correction
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.